Aminu dogo biography for kids

Today, Sunday, the 19th of May, 2024 marks the 93rd year of the birth of Alhaji Aminu Dantata, a Kano-based businessman and philanthropist who is a scion of the late Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, famously known across Northern Nigeria as Alhassan Dogo, owing to his height.

 Aminu Dantata is the founder and co-founder of several companies across various sectors of the economy, famous among which are Express Petroleum & Gas Company Ltd, Jaiz Bank, etc.

In 1978, he was a member of the National Movement, an organisation that later transformed to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN).

Though the 15th child in a family of seventeen children, Alhaji Aminu nonetheless acquired both Islamic and Western education, owing to a number of factors, key among which were his late father’s wide international sophistication, as well as the stupendous wealth of his family.